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Royal Welsh Show: Opposition parties seek to woo farmers ahead of May election

Scrapping Inheritance Tax, raising further funding and returning to a full badger cull are just some of the policies on the table for Welsh voters

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Conservative Samuel Kurtz was one of the opposition candidates sharing their views at the Royal Welsh Show
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Conservative Samuel Kurtz was one of the opposition candidates sharing their views at the Royal Welsh Show

The main opposition parties to the Welsh Labour Government set out their stalls to farmers at the Royal Welsh Show today (July 21), with each promising to raise rural funding and scrap the UK Government's...

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